Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Asmi Bishara | Al-Ahram Weekly | 25-31 December 2003 From the soap opera trial of O J Simpson to Herzliya: Azmi Bishara traces the death of the liberal Jew When a liberal Harvard University law professor defended Orenthal James Simpson, commonly known as “OJ”, on the grounds of “reasonable doubt,” it must have reminded

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Arthur Nelsen | Aljazeera.net | 9 January 2004 Shock waves from the continuing carnage in the Middle East are increasingly dividing the Jewish diaspora, and the rifts are becoming ugly. Aljazeera.net has uncovered evidence of an anti-Semitic hate mail campaign against Jewish peace activists in London, which involves rabbis and at least one respected

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Azmi Beshara | Al-Ahram Weekly | 8-14 January 2004 Land is at the heart of the drama unfolding in Palestine. But it is not the only thing, argues Azmi Beshara Rhetoric about demography so dominates Israel’s political discourse that one might be tempted to assume that Israel has abandoned its preferred designation as the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brian Klug | The Nation | February 2, 2004 In 1879 the German journalist Wilhelm Marr, a former socialist and anarchist, founded an organization that was novel in two ways. It was the first political party based on a platform of hostility to Jews. And it introduced the world to a new word: “anti-Semite.”

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | 14 January 2004 Anne Gwynne writes to The Guardian in response to Jonathan Spyer’s article (14/01/04) In an article entitled “Israel’s Demographic Time Bomb” by Jonathan Spyer, formerly Adviser to the Government of Ariel Sharon, The Guardian (14/01/04) ran this heading, ‘Jews risk becoming a minority in their own land’ (well,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Volume 25, No. 1 | January 2004 Even though we live in an age of intensive and intrusive media coverage, TV viewers in Israel were lucky to catch a glimpse of the meetings that produced the Geneva Accord. The clip we watched in November showed a group

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Dissident Voice | 22 December 2003 Review of The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2003) There’s no more explosive topic in American public life today than the issue of Israel, its treatment of the Palestinians and its influence on American politics. Yet